How Long to Read Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation

How Long Does it Take to Read Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation by Emily Williams

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.

How long is Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation?

Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation by Emily Williams is 285 pages long, and a total of 72,675 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to read Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation aloud.

What Reading Level is Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation?

Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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